Essay of Faith in Jerusalem, photography by Shira Kela, 2015. Courtesy of the artist and Galeria SENDA.

Isabel Rocamora in an essay of Faith in Jerusalem, photography by Shira Kela, 2015. Courtesy of the artist and Galeria SENDA.

Isabel Rocamora in an essay of Faith in Jerusalem, photography by Shira Kela, 2015. Courtesy of the artist and Galeria SENDA.

Isabel Rocamora rehearsal for Faith with Ramadán Tahai. Pictures by Ahmad Siam, 2015. Courtesy of the artist and Galeria SENDA.

Isabel Rocamora rehearsal for Faith with Ramadán Tahai. Pictures by Ahmad Siam, 2015. Courtesy of the artist and Galeria SENDA.

Isabel Rocamora rehearsal for Faith with Ramadán Tahai. Pictures by Ahmad Siam, 2015. Courtesy of the artist and Galeria SENDA.

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Galeria SendaLOOP Barcelona 2015

In this edition, we will be presenting Isabel Rocamora’s new work, Faith. This work is a three screen installation which poetically considers the conflict between the dominant monotheistic religions in Jerusalem through proposing a unification in their gesture of prayer.

Press Release

Faith is a three screen installation which poetically considers the conflict between the dominant monotheistic religions in Jerusalem through proposing a unification in their gesture of prayer.

Referencing the three image icon on a human scale, Faith presents a Jew, a Christian and a Muslim praying in time and place synchronicity. Here, the evident juxtaposition is accompanied by an uncanny similarity of inner state and gestural intention – softening difference and questioning segregation from a human, spiritual perspective.

The wilderness of the Holy Land serves as setting for the intimacy of worship, providing both a Biblical reference from which all three religions feed, and the expansiveness of a liminal desert scape – a promise of passage. Far from proposing a ‘normalisation’ of the current political situation between the Israeli State and the Palestinian and Christian communities, this triptych aims to re- evaluate the function of separation walls in the presence of Jerusalem’s fervour of communion